E-learning Uncovered

JULY 4, 2013

In an effort to streamline e-learning development, our team at Artisan mapped out the entire e-learning production process and identified, to the minute detail, what roles are needed to create e-learning. Traffic Manager (helps move items back and forth, such as script to the narrator, then audio files to the developer). Proofreader.

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E-learning Uncovered

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

We’ve developed a lot of ethics training for our clients in recent years. In many ways, e-learning is a good fit for this and other compliance topics, especially since many companies are required to release new ethics content annually. Peer-to-peer discussions seem ideally suited for exploring the nuances in this type of content.

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E-learning Uncovered

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

You’ll want test subjects to represent the full cross-section of your audience in terms of such things as computer proficiency, age, cultural background, existing knowledge of the subject matter, role in the company, and any other variable that related to your program. How should I conduct the test?

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 9, 2015

On Thursday night, Diane presented a course we developed for the American Red Cross at the ever-popular DemoFest. Not only do we love attending the conference, but it’s also one of the rare opportunities for us to get together and meet in-person as a company. (We Our company meeting this year was a blast. We work 100% remotely.)

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 28, 2013

Rod : Wait until you see my next company credit card statement – you’ll see what kind of hotels I like! What if your project sponsor leaves the company? With a cloud-based tool, if the company goes out of business or stops supporting the tool, I have nothing but my published courses. What if money gets tight? Follow rodgator.

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 12, 2018

If you didn’t go to school for design or studied color theory, then odds are you select colors for your learning content based on the presets of your development tool. I found out that a lot of content developers did not even realize that they could select colors other than those found in their development tool.

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 16, 2011

It’s a common complaint among e-learning designers that they don’t get to see each other’s work often enough, because their companies (or their clients) won’t allow their courses to be posted online or included in portfolios. It showcases the quality of work your company does. And it’s understandable why.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 2, 2012

As e-learning developers working with clients, we face a similar challenge. Ideally, we would be able to make changes and improvements to the course based on our education and “expert” ideas about course design and development. But who really is the “expert”, and whose course is it anyway?

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 15, 2011

Of the companies I’ve worked for or currently consult with, very few have a robust Knowledge Management System (KMS) where those with the knowledge can easily share that knowledge with others. Give access to e-learning development tools directly to the employees. (ex: So this made me think of organizations. ex: Izzui by QuickLessons).

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 16, 2016

E-learning is an extremely flexible tool for employee development. Employees like knowing that the company they work for has a clue about their jobs. There are dozens of ways you can tailor your e-learning to different circumstances and audiences. It’s virtually impossible to start an accurate sentence with, “All e-learning.”

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

As an e-learning project manager/designer/developer/writer/editor/[insert current hat here], it can be frustrating to stumble onto an error in your course. To fix problems with the lists, check their construction using the company standard. ? To help minimize missed errors, I put together this list of the places errors hide.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 7, 2011

The financial crisis of 2008 did quite a bit to put the world of training and development on an extreme diet – corporate/government training departments are working with skeleton crews and even scarcer resources, budgets are tight, and only the mission critical projects are being funded. which created barriers to entry. Imagine this….

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, in terms of power, its capabilities are more in a league with Flash than with the majority of most rapid development tools. Because it’s so easy to tweak interactions (in response to inspiration, user testing, or client feedback), Zebra bridges the gap between a development tool and a design tool.

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E-learning Uncovered

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

While specific elements will vary based on the type of project (LMS selection, custom course development, etc.), These include: Company Background. (I did a search for Sample RFP and came up with several samples for different types of projects.) there are major elements you will want to include regardless of the type of project.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 12, 2011

I’ve just completed my fifth course for a company in the baking industry. Many IT groups use an agile version of development called SCRUM in which they don’t plan out the entire project, but they divide the project into succinct cadences, known as sprints. Development of course objectives. Develop prototype.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 12, 2011

I’ve just completed my fifth course for a company in the baking industry. Many IT groups use an agile version of development called SCRUM in which they don’t plan out the entire project, but they divide the project into succinct cadences, known as sprints. This gets you to reaching that ROI faster. Stakeholders love this!

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 10, 2015

Last year, I joined the company full time. Instead of finding a developer who is available, waiting for him or her to make the changes and republish the course, and then checking the course again to make sure that it was done correctly, you can do this all yourself! Ok, why not? Start small. I rocked that! I said, “No way! Or a shirt.

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 23, 2011

When I ask what people think you need to be good at e-learning development, people often say you need to be good with computers – which isn’t necessarily true. Exactly how you meet the objectives might change a bit (which is the skill you might still need to develop), but many of the other skills are there for you. Get/stay up to date.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 15, 2011

Of the companies I’ve worked for or currently consult with, very few have a robust Knowledge Management System (KMS) where those with the knowledge can easily share that knowledge with others. Give access to e-learning development tools directly to the employees. (ex: So this made me think of organizations. ex: Izzui by QuickLessons).

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E-learning Uncovered

OCTOBER 23, 2013

If this is something you are thinking about doing, I encourage you to visit your local office of the Small Business Administration , Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), or Small Business Development Center. There are a number of reputable companies out there. Morning Buzz: Becoming a Self-Published Author.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

See some prototypes of activity stream-based tracking and even build your own at Project Tin Can ; while this technology may not be in common use for another few years, it’s very interesting to think of how these new capabilities will affect our designs and the tools we use for development.

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 5, 2011

As training developers, our job is to make sure our students get exactly the information they need to meet the desired performance and business results. That means including what they need and, just as importantly, leaving out what they don’t need. So what do you do? First, let’s look at the wrong answers.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 10, 2015

Are we being equally clear with each other when designing and developing the course? Ignoring the problem and hoping it disappears will, in the long run, be detrimental to the parties involved and to your company. When designing e-learning courses, we want to be very clear what we want the learners to do or think differently.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 7, 2013

Her predicament got me thinking about how precious our technology is to us as e-learning developers. In my next post, I’ll talk about “life in the cloud” as a solution for the e-learning developer. Most e-learning developers buy high-end laptops that can cost from $900 – $1500 or more. Here are the reasons why: 1.

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 1, 2011

When project team members (developers, SMEs, etc.) The third major issue is availability: A SME has to go out of the country on a business trip, a programmer has to split his time between your project and another, your narrator gets strep throat just when you need edits made, or the project champion leaves the company.

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Whether you’re the only developer at your company or one in a team of a dozen, it can pay to have templates. Having templates can ensure consistency across the courses and across developers. For example, I am developing a course in Storyline to work on the iPad. 5. Developer Notes.

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E-learning Uncovered

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Now that you have your web server set up, you and your Captivate developers need to configure your Captivate publishing preferences so the published courses use the PHP script to process the quiz results. Company/Institute , Department, and Course – these fields are used to organize the data on your server.

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E-learning Uncovered

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Q: What is the skillset for your team’s “Developer” and what are the skill sets for the “Traffic Manager?”. A: The Developer is the person who takes the storyboard and develops the course in the authoring tool. There was a time when the company was just me and Diane. We’d pass the course back and forth for editing.

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